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Indianapolis Museum of Art/Press Release Jan. 14 1977 For Release Immediate Re: BLACK ARTISTS EXHIBITION TO OPEN AT INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART An exhibition of works by Hale Woodruff, John W. Hardrick, and William Edouard Scott, three of Indiana's most prominent black artists, will open Black History Month at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, on February 1, at an invitational preview. WOODRUFF, HARDRICK AND SCOTT is an exhibition representing an effort to document a body of work created between the years 1910 and 1930, during the early formative years of black cultural Renaissance. Many people are unaware of the outstanding contribution made to the art of Indiana by these internationally known artists, who studied at the John Herron Art Institute and exhibited together in local shows. The 24 portraits and landscapes in the exhibition do not necessarily reflect the "black experience," nor do they belong to any particular school of art, but the artists have drawn inspiration from the whole pattern of life. Hale Woodruff, born in 1900, is at present living and actively painting in New York. After leaving the John Herron Art Institute in the last 1920's he studied further in this country at the Art Institute of Chicago, in Paris with the noted black artist, H. O. Tanner, and with Diego Rivera in Mexico. The recipient of numerous awards, Woodruff's works have been exhibited widely in this country and abroad, and are in many public collections. -MORE- News Services Contact: Russell D. Potts/Dorothy C. Meyer/Karen Cecil 1200 W 38 Street Indianapolis 46208 317/923-1331 Cable/Imart